Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani entered authorities after the Taliban seized energy following US-led drawdown in 2021.
Afghanistan’s performing minister for refugees has been killed in an explosion within the capital, Kabul, the Taliban has mentioned.
Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani was killed on Wednesday within the blast that additionally claimed the lives of 5 others, native media reported.
A Taliban spokesman confirmed the killing, the Reuters information company reported. Interior Ministry officers instructed The Associated Press information company the explosion was brought on by a suicide bombing. A authorities supply, who requested to stay nameless, instructed the AFP information company that the explosion occurred on the Ministry of Refugees in Kabul.
There was no fast declare of duty for the blast.
Haqqani turned a minister within the Taliban’s interim authorities after overseas forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
He was a senior chief of the highly effective Haqqani Network, liable for plenty of violent assaults through the Taliban’s two-decade armed marketing campaign, in keeping with the US State Department.
Haqqani, who was dealing with the incoming refugee disaster in Afghanistan, was additionally the uncle of Sirajuddin Haqqani, the present inside minister.
